Our current implementation of Flash HTTP live streaming much like the iPhone. It is pre-chunked in 10 second chunks. So the latency is very high. I am pretty sure that Flash HTTP streaming is not designed for low latency streaming. The RTMP protocol is best suited for low latency streaming. Where as Flash HTTP streaming is best suited for multi-bitrate higher latency live streaming and video on demand streaming.

1. How is resource utilization on the server in regards to http compared to rtmp and rtmpt ?

It should be about the same or lower. We do not have the tools to do head to head performance testing.

2. Will there be a secure variant akin to rtmpte, i.e. https ?

Flash Access is most likely the right way to secure these streams. We are still working out how Wowza and Flash Access might work together.

3. Will logging be able to show play, seek, and other "streaming" events with this protocol?

Certainly play and stop and some form of seek that is similar to Silverlight seek. I don't think we get the data from the player to get the precise play, pause, seek, stop information that we get today over RTMP. So what we report will be derived based on which segments of the video are requested.

4. Since this is http, and behaves like IIS smooth streaming, is it fair to say Apache, IIS, and other web servers are likely/easily able to add Flash http support in the future?

I really don't know. Certainly live and multi-bitrate will be tougher for the web server solutions.

And my "testing environtment" at the office is an environment where i use livestreaming.

So live as well as the Big Buck Bunny and Elephants Dream is not working.

I hope thats better ;)

And the link that you gave, that is working properly :) (I dont have a sound system connected to my pc at the office, but is there an mp3 audio stream in that example? or an AAC audio stream?) If there is no sound, then never mind ;)

I had all the Wowza folks here run the following test and they were all able to play the video. See if you follow these steps if it works. If not, I would try other computers and other network setups to see if you can isolate why it is not working for you. It does work:

I need help with a quick test of the new Flash HTTP streaming. Please first upgrade to the latest version of Flash (10,1,53,64). You can check your version here: